Private Cloud built on OpenStack

Deploy a production-ready, hosted private cloud powered by OpenStack and Ceph – in under a minute. No building. No waiting. No hardware management.

Open Stack Powered

Your Own Private Cloud with OpenMetal

Built for Control. Priced for Predictability. Powered by Open Source.

Full Control

Full root access and admin-level control across your infra stack. Real-time provisioning and API-driven automation with OpenStack.

Transparent Pricing

Predictable monthly pricing. No surprise bandwidth charges. Infrastructure costs you can actually budget around.

Freedom from Lock-In

100% open-source stack built on OpenStack & Ceph. No proprietary licensing fees. No public cloud penalties. Migrate on your terms.

Leaving Public Cloud? Save Big and Gain Control.

The Challenge: Public cloud bills can quickly spiral, especially at scale, with unpredictable egress, overprovisioned services, and hidden fees.

THE OPENMETAL SOLUTION:

  • 30–60% Total Savings compared to AWS/GCP/Azure for sustained workloads
  • Predictable monthly billing with included bandwidth and no surprise fees
  • Built for scale — ideal for steady usage, backups, BI, analytics, dev/test, SaaS, etc.

Our private cloud users see on average ~30-60% lower infrastructure costs and gain full control of their environment.

Moving Off VMware? We Make It Easy.

The Challenge: VMware’s licensing changes, rising costs, and Broadcom’s acquisition are creating uncertainty and limiting flexibility.

THE OPENMETAL SOLUTION:

  • Zero proprietary license fees — open-source OpenStack eliminates vendor lock-in
  • Migrate with confidence — no hard sell‑off, just expert guidance and POC assistance
  • Future‑proof infrastructure — scalable, flexible, secure, backed by Ceph and OpenStack

You have total control over your infrastructure—no restrictive terms, predictable costs, and support as you transition.

Tom Fanelli

Tom Fanelli, CEO and Co-Founder

Convesio

Your team is the kind of people we would dream of having on our own team. And the great thing about working with you is that it feels like they are part of our team. This quickly won over trust with us.

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Nebo Nekolic - CEO @MyMiniFactory

Nebo Nikolic, CEO

OpenMetal Customer - MyMiniFactory

OpenMetal is an essential partner that aligns with our values and ambitions. They grasp the significance of fostering creativity and building a strong sense of community. They are an extension of who we are.

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Arys Andreou, Head of Infrastructure at MyMiniFactory

Arys Andreou, Head of Infrastructure

OpenMetal Customer - MyMiniFactory

I would definitely recommend OpenMetal. The key points would be an excellent support staff with deep knowledge and troubleshooting steps that are relevant to the issue and don’t begin with the basics.

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OpenMetal – The Fastest Path to OpenStack

All OpenMetal Hosted Private Clouds are powered by OpenStack and Ceph, and  start with a Cloud Core – a hyper-converged architecture comprised of three servers of your selected hardware configuration, provisioned as a service.

  • The Cloud Core is deployed using industry-standard tools, Kolla-Ansible and Ceph-Ansible, ensuring a robust and scalable foundation.
  • It delivers a fully operational control plane along with pre-configured block storage, object storage, compute resources, and networking infrastructure.
  • Includes Ceph storage plus LVM (Logical Volume Manager) storage options. 

Kolla Ansible

Open Stack Powered

  • 100% of your servers in your VLANs, with root ownership, so you have complete flexibility to extend and customize your cloud environments.
  • With the single-tenant environment you operate on dedicated infrastructure that offers all the security and control you expect with a private cloud.
  • The Cloud Core incorporates essential OpenStack components, with additional services and extensions available upon request.
  • Get right to using your cloud via Horizon, Terraform, or CLI.
  • OpenMetal designed their OpenStack powered Private Clouds to seamlessly support both public cloud and private cloud workloads, offering versatility and scalability for diverse use cases.

First in the Industry

OpenMetal made OpenStack accessible to companies of all sizes with their OpenStack-powered On-Demand Hosted Private Cloud that could be deployed as-a-service in under a minute.

The chart on the right shows how OpenMetal’s Hosted Private Cloud stacks up against other Cloud Deployment Models based on Risk Level and Startup Time.

Cloud Deployment Models - Startup Time vs Risk Level

Scale your Cloud with Confidence

Fully Private & Production-Ready — Pre‑Configured, Customizable, and Day‑2 Operations Ready

OpenMetal’s Private IaaS platform gives you the freedom to start small and grow at your own pace.

Launch with a single Private Cloud Core—complete with a fully functional control plane, compute, and storage—and seamlessly scale as your needs evolve.

Our flexible IaaS platform makes it easy to expand horizontally by adding bare metal servers, storage clusters, and additional clouds, all connected through secure private networking built into the OpenMetal architecture.

Whether you’re a fast-growing business or a large enterprise, OpenMetal delivers a solution that’s enterprise-ready from day one while still allowing you to start with a minimal footprint.

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OpenMetal Architecture

OpenInfra Foundation Thierry Carrez

OpenMetal Cloud provides on-demand private infrastructure, which brings cloud fundamentals like elasticity and usage billing to the cloud deployment itself. It’s awesome to see OpenMetal’s latest product use OpenStack to combine the benefits of public cloud and managed private cloud, powered by open infrastructure.

Thierry Carrez, GM
OpenInfra Foundation

Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer at OpenInfra Foundation and OpenStack

This [OpenMetal Cloud] is what OpenStack has been needing. This enables more people to figure out a path to production with OpenStack. People now have this opportunity to tap into the power of OpenStack.

Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer
OpenStack Foundation

Todd Robinson

OpenStack is a critical part of open source alternatives to the mega public clouds. Our focus on “easy to deploy and manage” OpenStack will give more options for small and medium businesses to join the OpenStack user base.

Todd Robinson, Co-Founder and President
OpenMetal

Mission Fueled by Open Source

We believe that open source is a fundamental good in the IT world as it creates collaboration across the globe, opens doors for people who want to change their future, and encourages successes to be built on other successes for a collective good. OpenMetal is a Silver Member of the OpenInfra Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the development and adoption of open-source software for building and running scalable cloud infrastructure.  The OpenMetal Cloud platform is powered by OpenStack, the #1 open source cloud infrastructure platform; plus Ceph, the #1 open source storage system in the world.

Open Infrastructure Foundation - Silver Member    IaaS powered by OpenStack   Ceph Logo

OpenStack Powered Private Cloud Pricing

OpenMetal pioneered hosted OpenStack as a service to make OpenStack more accessible to all. When you purchase from OpenMetal you are buying from a company committed to open source ideals and business models. This extends to to our pricing model which is fully transparent and online (a first for the private cloud space) and fair (with customers saving as much as 60% when they move from public cloud).

Get Started on OpenStack

OpenMetal believes that a hands-on approach is the most effective way to determine if our infrastructure meets your requirements. We offer options for you and your team to explore and evaluate the OpenMetal platform before committing to a long-term project. And if you are new to OpenStack, or even planning to maybe build your own OpenStack, our platform is the best entry point for you.

Serious buyer.
Robust testing before purchase. 

Proof of Concept (PoC) Cloud Trial

Long term trials up to 30 days
Multiple users allowed
Seamlessly transition into production 
Dedicated account manager & engineer
Choice of hardware & region 

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Casual tester.
Quick peek under the hood.

Self-Serve Cloud Trial

Self-serve short term 8 hour trials
Single user only
Reclaimed at end of trial
No account manager or engineer
Limited hardware & region choices

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View extended comparison between PoC and Self-Serve trials. Have a question? Chat with us or schedule a consultation.

OpenStack Services on Your Hosted Private Cloud

APIs and CLI

Functionality for administering the hosted private cloud resources are available via API first and foremost. Additionally, a powerful CLI leverages those APIs to give cloud administrators fast and easy access.

Hosted OpenStack Private Cloud IaaS - Project Horizon

Cloud Management Dashboard

Web-based GUI for users to access their assigned resources. Creating VMs, networks, firewall rules, etc. can all be done by users of the hosted private cloud if the administrators have delegated permissions. Some administrative functions are also available via this GUI, but it is a subset of the API and CLI administrative functionality.

Hosted OpenStack Private Cloud IaaS - Project Heat

Orchestration

Heat orchestrates the infrastructure resources for a cloud application based on templates in the form of text files that can be treated like code. Heat provides both an OpenStack-native ReST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.

Hosted OpenStack Private Cloud IaaS - Project Nova

Compute

KVM based virtual machines can be created, scaled, and destroyed easily through an interface or via authenticated API calls.

Hosted OpenStack Private Cloud IaaS - Project Cinder

Block Storage

Persistent storage volumes can be created, deleted, and attached to VMs easily. OpenMetal Private Cloud Cores come with high-availability (HA) Ceph based block storage by default. Non-HA LVM/direct disk storage is also fully supported.

Hosted OpenStack Private Cloud IaaS - Project Swift

Object Storage Access

Standardized Rest API access to various types of object storage. The hyper-converged cloud cores have HA Ceph-based object storage by default. Non-HA LVM/direct disk storage is also fully supported.

Hosted OpenStack Private Cloud IaaS - Project Neutron

Network as a Service

Create routers, switches, and security groups. Security groups handle automated firewalling on the hardware node for VMs. Provision networks and organize rules for public and private IP address usage.

Hosted OpenStack Private Cloud IaaS - Project Keystone

Identity

All parts of the hosted private cloud leverage a universal and secure authentication system.

Hosted OpenStack Private Cloud IaaS - Project Glance

Virtual Machine Images

A catalog of VM images are available to spin up servers easily. Additional VM images can be manually created and stored for use based on your needs.

Additional OpenStack Services/Integrations

Zun

OpenStack Zun enables containers to compute.

Manila

OpenStack Manila enables Ceph shared file systems.

Barbican

Barbican enables secrets as a service.

Trove

OpenStack Trove enables database as a service.

Kuryr

OpenStack Kuryr bridges networking for Kubernetes to OpenStack networks.

Tacker

OpenStack Tacker powers network function virtualization.

OpenStackCLI

Command line interface to OpenStack API. Provided by Tutorial.

Kolla-Ansible

The Ansible used to create your clouds are available for easy cloud extension.

If you are looking for additional background information you may be interested in our article How to Build a Private Cloud on OpenStack but we highly recommend you start with hosted OpenStack to learn to operate the cloud before having to architect it.

 FAQs

OpenStack is an open-source, multi-tool software platform that enables the construction and management of public and private clouds. This software platform is the overarching cloud management software and handles networking, computing, storage connection, access levels, and much more.

This is native functionality for OpenStack. The steps (simplified) are as follows: Create your new OpenMetal Cloud in the new pod/geographic location – called Cloud 2. Edit Cloud 2’s OpenStack to use Cloud 1’s Keystone as the source of administration truth and to turn off Cloud 2’s Keystone and Horizon, and then edit Cloud 1 to recognize and admin Cloud 2. Cloud 2 will now appear as a Region in Cloud 1.

OpenMetal Clouds are organized by “pods”. Each pod has a minimum of 200gbits of connectivity that can be upgraded based on usage. Pods/overall network may also have direct peering with other cloud providers for maximum throughput.

OpenMetal’s OpenStack deployment is RefStack-validated, which refers to an OpenStack deployment that has been tested and certified for compatibility with the OpenStack Interoperability Guidelines using the RefStack tool.

As this is a fully private cloud built on OpenStack and Ceph, you will have full access to all of OpenStack and Ceph’s APIs.

We offer OpenMetal Central as a GUI as well as by API. OpenStack and Ceph both have an administrative GUI and a “Self Service User” GUI. Of note, as OpenStack and Ceph are often considered to be “API first” or “Infrastructure as Code first” applications, more administrative features are available via API or Command Line than within the administrative interface. For users that you might give Self Service access, OpenStack and Ceph have strong capabilities within the GUI.

OpenMetal is a corporate sponsor of the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF). OIF builds communities that write open-source infrastructure software that runs in production. With the support of over 100,000 individuals in 187 countries, the OIF hosts open-source projects and communities of practice, including infrastructure for AI, container-native apps, edge computing, and datacenter clouds. OpenMetal is committed to delivering open-source projects, community engagement, and services that ensure open source stays transparent and is one of the most actively developed projects on the planet. 

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Read OpenStack Content on the OpenMetal Blog

 

Downtime isn’t an option. This guide details five failover strategies for OpenStack clouds: active-active, active-passive, cold standby, storage replication, and automated disaster recovery. Understand the trade-offs in cost, recovery time, and complexity to choose the right approach for your needs.

Learn how to effectively benchmark your Ceph storage cluster. This guide covers everything from preparing your test environment and choosing the right tools (like FIO and RADOS bench) to running tests and analyzing results, ensuring your storage is optimized for performance.

Struggling with big data sovereignty and governance in the public cloud? This post explains how OpenMetal’s Hosted Private Cloud, built on OpenStack, offers a secure, compliant, and performant alternative. Discover how dedicated hardware and full control can help you meet strict regulations like GDPR and HIPAA.